The author's new book must be read carefully and thoughtfully, and the secret doors of great nature will open before you. The story is distinguished by the variety of styles of the great Russian language and the artistic accuracy of the images of literary heroes. The book is so needed in our time for the education of the human soul, especially the young. In great Russian literature there is a whole layer of classics that is associated with nature and man’s attitude towards it. S. T. Aksakov and M. M. Prishvin left a deep imprint on him. One can seriously count the “forest” writer Leonid Vasilyev among the successors of this tradition.